March 2005

30 Mar - IE 5 Mac celebrates it’s 5th anniversary

“… in many ways the best browser ever shipped by Microsoft…". All good things must come to an end though.

30 Mar - Tom’s Hardware Guide’s first blog

Talk about being late to the party. Might be interesting though.

30 Mar - Shared whiteboard with AJAX

Pretty cool! Only seems to work in Firefox right now though.

30 Mar - Life in a TEXTAREA

I know there are a bunch of Firefox extensions that can do some of this stuff, but built-in native support would be sweet! Is anyone listening?

30 Mar - Hillary Clinton slams Rockstar’s GTA

She wants a $90 million investigation to be launched. Don’t worry about the gamers. Someone do a head check on Hillary instead!

27 Mar - Interactive DOM scripting

Some really amazing DHTML demos by Gerard Ferrandez (via Dean Edwards)

27 Mar - No more IE 5.x support in Basecamp

“Don’t shut out visitors with old technology: Offer alternative versions and technology upgrade information” (Page 106 - Guideline 19) - Defensive Design for the Web - by 37signals.

24 Mar - The Zoomquilt

Amazing. This is a must see. Beautiful artwork.

23 Mar - SXSW Lowlights

Sex, drugs, alcohol, hot women and wild parties… is exactly what Scrivs missed out on by going to SXSW ;)

18 Mar - The Real Reason Microsoft Won’t Support CSS2 in IE7

“…it still takes an hour and a half to roast a chicken no matter how many ovens you’ve got”

17 Mar - The Acid2 challenge to Microsoft

“To ensure that IE 7 does not become another failed promise, the Web community will issue a challenge to Microsoft”

16 Mar - Google X

Google’s homage to OS X

16 Mar - IE 7 Details Begin to Leak

“But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE 7.0, but not embracing the standard in its entirety, partners say”

11 Mar - IE and Standards

An entire post on the topic, yet it tells us absolutely nothing. Why am I not surprised?

08 Mar - CSS Reboot - May 1st 2005

The May 1st reboot for CSS and Web standards

08 Mar - Dynamic Content with FlashVars

I’m not a big flash fan but this is something I’ll experiment with.

08 Mar - Rockstar Games Beaterator

Real time music sequencer built using flash! By the guys who brought us GTA3.

01 Mar - Applied Ajax

Nice example for those learning to use XMLHttpRequest at Adactio. “Ajax” just sounds silly to me though. I prefer calling it “Remote Scripting".

01 Mar - Simple Clearing of Floats

More info by Anne, Roger and Mike. How did we miss this?